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CrashPlan Features Tour: Explore Online Backup Features

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favicons of mobile devices and tablets

Yes! More on this again. Adding this post for a a few who may need more info. Apple iOS has supported touch icons, also Android also has apple-touch-icon support. For web pages that don’t specify a custom touch icon, a thumbnail screenshot of the page is used instead (iOS Devices). Android has a default icon, and some […]

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QOTD: Rodney Glen King

“Can we, Can we all get along? Can we, Can we get along.” – Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012)

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Finding the Failed Hard Drive – Linux Software RAID

After discovering my software raid system had suffered from a failed disk drive it was time to locate it and replace. But the question was “Which physical disk drive failed”. I don’t have a fancy blinking light or one that changes to amber or red when something is wrong. So to locate the drive I […]

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How to Find Hardware Devices in Linux with lshw

I needed to know the exact serial number of a failed disk drive in a software RAID set. I used the lshw tool to list out the drives on my system so that I could identify the disk that had failed. This tool will list the the hardware you are running and a good way […]

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Saving Private RAID ‘en

Over a week now I have been having serious performance issues with my private SAN (I am using OpenMediaVault) here at home. I noticed the issues and reviewed everything from services to software recently updated. Later to discover one of my HDD (Hard Disk Drives) in my RAID set were having issues The symptoms were that all […]